Emerging urate-lowering drugs and pharmacologic treatment strategies for gout: a narrative review

R Terkeltaub - Drugs, 2023 - Springer
Hyperuricemia with consequent monosodium urate crystal deposition leads to gout,
characterized by painful, incapacitating inflammatory arthritis flares that are also associated …

The Role of Uric Acid in Human Health: Insights from the Uricase Gene

YM Roman - Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2023 - mdpi.com
Uric acid is the final product of purine metabolism and is converted to allantoin in most
mammals via the uricase enzyme. The accumulation of loss of function mutations in the …

[HTML][HTML] Gut bacterial metabolism contributes to host global purine homeostasis

K Kasahara, RL Kerby, Q Zhang, M Pradhan… - Cell host & …, 2023 - cell.com
The microbes and microbial pathways that influence host inflammatory disease progression
remain largely undefined. Here, we show that variation in atherosclerosis burden is partially …

Psychological stress-induced microbial metabolite indole-3-acetate disrupts intestinal cell lineage commitment

W Wei, Y Liu, Y Hou, S Cao, Z Chen, Y Zhang, X Cai… - Cell Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
The brain and gut are intricately connected and respond to various stimuli. Stress-induced
brain-gut communication is implicated in the pathogenesis and relapse of gut disorders. The …

Alistipes indistinctus-derived hippuric acid promotes intestinal urate excretion to alleviate hyperuricemia

YX Xu, LD Liu, JY Zhu, SS Zhu, BQ Ye, JL Yang… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2024 - cell.com
Hyperuricemia induces inflammatory arthritis and accelerates the progression of renal and
cardiovascular diseases. Gut microbiota has been linked to the development of …

Purine-ifying uric acid by gut microbes

A Grelska, D Sharan, SH Light - Cell Chemical Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Elevated bloodstream levels of uric acid, a mammalian purine degradation product, are
associated with several noncommunicable diseases. Recent studies by Kasahara et al. and …

Uric acid in health and disease: From physiological function to pathogenic mechanism

S Wen, H Arakawa, I Tamai - Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2024 - Elsevier
Owing to renal reabsorption and the loss of uricase activity, uric acid (UA) is strictly
maintained at a higher physiological level in humans than in other mammals, which …

Crystal Facet Controlled Metal–Support Interaction in Uricase Mimics for Highly Efficient Hyperuricemia Treatment

J Hu, R Zhao, J Gu, Z Xi, Y Wang, X Sun, Z Xu… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
The effect of strong metal–support interaction (SMSI) has never been systematically studied
in the field of nanozyme-based catalysis before. Herein, by coupling two different Pd crystal …

Exploring a novel therapeutic strategy: the interplay between gut microbiota and high-fat diet in the pathogenesis of metabolic disorders

X Jia, Q Chen, H Wu, H Liu, C Jing, A Gong… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In the past two decades, the rapid increase in the incidence of metabolic diseases, including
obesity, diabetes, dyslipidemia, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, hypertension, and …

Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus NCUH061012 alleviates hyperuricemia via modulating gut microbiota and intestinal metabolites in mice

X Zhao, P Cai, S Xiong, B Wei, T Du, T Huang, Q Yu… - Food Bioscience, 2024 - Elsevier
Hyperuricemia (HUA) has emerged as a public health burden. Recently, lactic acid bacteria
(LAB) were reported to possess potential for alleviating HUA. However, LABs with anti-HUA …